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Table 1 Prevalence of selected adverse childhood experiences: experienced alcohol problems during childhood as well as violence and sexual abuse during childhood by location and region. All three indicators are self-reported by adult participants in health surveys. Unpublished analyses from the Greenland Health Survey 2014 [12]

From: Three lifestyle-related issues of major significance for public health among the Inuit in contemporary Greenland: a review of adverse childhood conditions, obesity, and smoking in a period of social transition

 

Often experienced alcohol problems in childhood home

N = 1147

Victim of violence during childhood

N = 1125

Victim of sexual abuse during childhood

N = 977

 

%

%

%

Location

   

 Nuuk

33.1

50.0

37.1

 Towns

21.7

46.7

36.7

 Villages

18.2

36.9

39.3

p

0.002

0.004

0.74

Region

   

 West Greenland

21.4

44.2

36.0

 East Greenland

23.2

41.5

46.1

p

0.62

0.55

0.03